Reel



March 9, 1937. M. G. HINNEKENS 2,073,063

REEL

Filed Oct. 50, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 NVENTOR, flaw/mice 6;. Inna/4W5,

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ATTORNEY.

March 9, 193 7.

G. HINNEKENS REEL Filed Oct. 30, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 1 VENTOR Wad/140 02154, yihTl FMJ:

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Patented Mar. 9, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE Application October 30, 1935, Serial No. 47,399

4 Claims.

Reels used in dyeing and for other textile purposes are usually made to comprise, with a shaft and spiders (rimmed or not) thereon, a series of wooden staves arranged parallel with the reel 5' axis and secured to the spiders so as to afford the periphery of the reel around which the material being treated extends or is wound. The action of the liquid in dyeing and the like treatments causes warping of the staves, with possible splitting thereof, and there is always the possibility of loosening of the means which secures the staves in place, so that all parts of the reel do not remain in rigid relation to each other, but what is of more consequence as troublesome is the fact that such warping results in the staves becoming bent, either outward or inward, which in turn results in unequal action on the material being treated.

I have devised and herein set forth a reel which is proofagainst these faults, largely because it may be of all-metal construction and is so designed that the parts thereof will all permanently maintain their original form and rigid relation to each other, its periphery portion being further such as not to cause staining of the material being treated or likely to cause any other injury thereto such as accompanies the use of wooden staves when their surfaces exposed to such material become accidentally burred and otherwise mutilated.

In the drawings,

Fig. 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of one form of the improved reel;

Fig. 2 is an end elevation thereof;

Fig. 3 is a detail of the same on a larger scale showing, as viewed in Fig. 2, the manner of supporting each cross-head of a spider;

Fig. 4 is a section on line 44, Fig. 3;

Fig. 5 is an end elevation of another form of the reel; and

Fig. 6 is an elevation of one of the wedges M.

A tube I has welded into its ends the trunnions 2 and 3, trunnion 3 being formed the longer so as to receive a pulley or the like. Thus is preferably formed the axial portion or shaft of the reel.

Referring, first, to Figs. 1 to 4:

Each spider structure or spider of the reel is formed as follows: There is a collar or hub 4 which is formed with peripheral, equally spaced radially open sockets 4a, being here four in number; in

each socket is fitted and welded a metal spoke 5.

A metal cross-head 6 is applied to the outer end of each spoke, extending crosswise thereof and in a chord of a circle around the reel axis and formed as follows: It is a metal casting formed preferably with a flat web 6a having at opposite sides of one long edge the strengthening flanges 6?) (giving the cross-head a generally T-shaped form as shown by Fig. 4). At its opposite long edge it has in suitable thickened-up portions of web to a central socket l and end sockets 8 all open away from the head of the T formed by the flanges 62). At the ends of the flanges the material of the web to is thickened up, as at 9, to form bosses, and each boss has a slot '18 open in the opposite direction from that in which the sockets open and formed to bisect a hole I I which extends through the web 6a; in other words a narrow aperture is formed which remote from its mouth is widened. The sockets I receive the other ends of the spokes, which are welded therein. Each spider is completed in this example by the metal brace-rods if each of which is generally straight but has its ends bent oil in the same direction at an angle of 45, each brace-rod spanning the space between two adjoining cross-heads and having its ends fitted and welded in the sockets 8. The spiders have their hubs or collars welded on the shaft formed by parts I to 3. The welding, at least as between the cross-heads and spokes and brace-rods is indicated at a:.

On the reel body thus formed are arranged the stave elements which afford the periphery of the reel.

The stave elements 53 are formed of stainless sheet metal. Each is formed arched in the crosssection of the reel by bending off the longitudinal edge portions l3a of a strip of the metal on lines parallel with its long edges and so that said edge portions stand in substantially parallel planes, projecting both in the same direction. In the example the element is semi-octagonal in crosssection. Each such element is assembled with two opposed cross-heads of the spiders by introducing its edge portions into the slots l0 thereof and then driving into each hole I l a wedge M, the effect being to form a bend in each edge-portion in coincidence with the wedge and thus lock the edge portion to the cross-head. The midfacet of the five facets forming the relatively outer face of each element 13 conforms to a plane perpendicular to the plane of the corresponding spokes 5, and since there are four of such elements, apart, the reel obtains an effective grip on the wet fabric so that in practice there is practically no slippage and hence no chafing of the fabric and because of the obtuse angular relation of said facets no creasing or marking of the fabric occurs.

Referring, now, to Fig. 5:

Here the collar or hub l5 of each spider, its spokes l6 radiating from the hub and the crosshead H at the outer end of each spoke are formed integral as a metal casting. The cross-heads are substantially the same in form and arrangement as those first described, and they have the slots I8 and holes [9 formed and arranged the same as the slots and holes already described, with Wedges 20 to be driven into the holes. The stave elements 2| are again of stainless sheet metal and are each formed as follows: A strip of the material of suitable width has its longitudinal edge portions bent off in the same direction to lie in planes substantially coincident with planes radiating from a common axis and the intervening portion left curved to an arc. The spiders have their collars welded on the shaft the same as in the form first described, or so that each spoke of one spider is in the same radial plane as a spoke of the other spider. Each of the stave elements in this case is made to span the space between two adjoining cross-heads of each spider and, its edge portions being entered into the adjoining slots of such cross-heads, the wedges are driven into the holes so as to form bends in said edge-portions and lock the latter in the slots the same as already described.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim is:

1. In combination, a reel body having an aperture open toward its periphery and also in one direction in which the reel axis extends, means affording the periphery of the reel and including an element formed of stiff sheet material and extending lengthwise of the real axis and having an edge portion received in said aperture, and a wedge driven into the aperture in a direction lengthwise of said axis and binding said 40 edge portion therein.

2. In combination, a reel body having an aperture open toward its periphery and also in one direction in which the reel axis extends, and widened at a portion thereof removed from the periphery, means affording the periphery of the reel and including an element formed of stiff sheet material and extending lengthwise of the reel axis and having an edge portion extending into said aperture and into the widened portion thereof, and a wedge driven into said widened portion of the aperture in a direction lengthwise of said axis and holding a part of said edge portion in bent state.

3. A reel spider including a structure having a hub and spokes extending from the hub in different radii of the hub, elongated elements extending transversely of and bisected by planes radial and coincident with the hub axis and having inwardly open sockets in which the outer ends of the spokes are respectively received and secured and each also having between its said socket and its ends other inwardly open sockets, and bracing members alternating with said elements and each having its ends received and secured in the two relatively adjoining second-named sockets of the two elements between which it is arranged.

4. A reel including a spider structure having radial spokes and elements of stifi sheet material arched in the cross-section and elongated lengthwise of and having their concave sides presented toward the reel axis and respectively bridging the spaces between and secured to the outer terminals of the spokes, each two adjoining elements having their adjoining margins secured to a common spoke and the convex sides of said elements together conforming substantially to a common cylinder and forming the part of the reel around which the material wound on the reel extends.

MAURICE G. HINNEKENS. 

